Building-block construction



A. PINTSIKER.

BUILDING BLOCK CONSTRUCTION.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 19. 1918.

1,322,827. Patented Nov. 1919.

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- ABRAHAM PINTSKER, 015 LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

BUILDING-BLOCK CONSTRUCTION.

tion.

My object is to make an improved building block construction and my invention consists of the novel features herein shown, described, and claimed.

Figure 1 is a perspective of a building block embodying the principles of my invention and used in my building block construction.

Fig. 2 is a plan of two of the blocks shown in Fig. 1 placed together as in a wall.

Fig. 3 is a plan of a piece of the block as used in constructing a corner or the like.

Fig. 4 is a plan of another piece of the block which may b3 used along with piece shown in Fig. 3 to make a square corner.

Fig. 5 is a plan of another piece of the block which may be used in piecing. out a wall.

Fig. 6 is a fragmentary plan of a wall built in accordance with the principles of my improved building block construction.

The building block 1 is molded in the usual way and is composed of any of the usual plastic materials such as Portland cement and sand, and the like, and the block is intended for use in building hollow walls.

The details of the building block 1 are as follows: The upper face 2 and the lower face 3 are'equal and parallel, the block'being of uniform height throughout its dimensions and the upper and lower faces being flat. The side piece 4 is rectangular in plan and rectangular in cross section and the outer face 5 is vertical and straight and extends from end to end of the block at right angles to the faces 2 and 3. The end face 6 is straight and at right angles to the faces 2, 3, and 5. The end face 7 of the side piece 2 is parallel with the end face 6. The end cross piece 8 extends from the side piece 4 at right angles and has an outer face 9 which is a continuation of the end face 7, and has an end 10 parallel with the side face 5. The end cross piece 8 is substantially one-half the width of the faces 2 and 3 of the side piece 4.

The intermediate cross piece 11 extends.

from the inner side of the side piece 4 and Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 25, was.

Application filed September 19, 191a seriaiiiq. 254,784.

has an end face 12 in line with the end face 10 and a side face 13 at right angles to the side piece 4, and a side face 14 which is slightly inclined outwardly from the side piece 4 so that in plan the intermediate cross piece 11 is wedge shaped with the tip of the Wedge attached to the side piece 4. The side piece 4 has an innerv face 15 at right angles to the face 13 and extending from the end face 6 to the intermediate cross piece 11 and an inner side 'face 16 in line with the side face 15 and extending from the intermediate cross piece 11 to the end cross piece 8. The end cross piece 8 has an inner face 17 at right angles to the inner face 16. The length of the face 16 is the length of the face 12 plus the length of the I face 10 greater than the length of the face 15 so that when two blocks are placed together as in Fig. 2 with the faces 14 in contact, the line between the faces 14 is halfway between the faces 9 and the hollow 18 between the face 15 of the first block and the face 16 of the second block is equal to the hollow 19 between the face 16 'of the first block and the face 15 of'the second block. 7

The piece of block 20 shown in Fig. 3 is produced by cutting the side piece 2 on a line with the face 13. The piece of block 21 shown in Fig. 4 is made by cutting the side piece 2 on a line measured from the end of the face 14 a distance equal to the length of the face 12 and saving the side piece 2 and intermedlate cross piece 11. The piece of block 22 shown in Fig. 5 is made by cutting the side piece 2 on a line at a distance of the width. of face 10 from the face 17 and saving the side. piece 2 and the intermediate cross piece 11. Of course the pieces of blocks 20, 21, and 22 may be cast in the desired forms or they may be made by taking the regular blocks and cutting away the surplus to produce the desired form.

An example of my improved building block construction is shown in Fig. 6. The

construction shown consists of the side wall 23, a fragment of the first end wall 24, and a fragment of the second end wall 25. The intermediate portion of the side wall 23 consists of the outer blocks A, B, C, D, and the inner blocks E, F, G, H. The blocks A and "placed in position with the side piece 2 in line with-the intermediate cross pieces 11 of the end cross piece 8 fitting with its face 17 against the end cross piece 8 of the block A. Then a block B is placed in position with its end face 6 against the end face 7 of the block A and this arrangement "is continued With the blocks C, G, D, and H, and

so on until a wall of the desired length is produced. To make the corner between the side wall 23 and the end Wall 24: a piece of block 20 is placed in position with the end face 7 against the end face 6 of the block D and with its end cross piece 8 fitting an inner face of the end cross piece Sof the block H. [Then a piece of block21 is placed in position with the face 1% engagingthe face 14 ofthe block 20, and the face 6 engaging the face 7, of the block H. Then a block J is placed in position atright'angles to the block H with the side piece 2 of the block'J in line with the end cross piece 8 of the block H. Then a piece of block 22 is the pieces of blocks 20 and 21, and then the end wall 24 may be continued in the same manner as the sidewall 23. I

In a similar manner the corner at the opposite end of the wall 23 is constructed and the end wall 25 is started and continued. In building the walls upwardly the tiers may be'niismatched in any desired way but I prefersimply to reverse the block so that the inclined line 26 of a lower tier will be 1 crossed by the inclined line 27 ofthe next nppertier. In this way the hollows 18 and claimed.

fiat upper and'lowcr faces and comprising 7 long rectangular side pieces, end pieces extending from opposite endso-f the side pieces angles, lntermediate orosspieces ex- 7 at right 7 tending from the ntermediate portions of the side pieces and fitting together and the meeting faces of'the crosspiecesbeing in-.

clinedso' as to hook -together and solocated as to "offset one side piece relative to the other. e

2. Abuildin blocklconstruction'com rising a pluralityofj pairs of matingbuilding blocks having parallel fiat upper and lower faces and each'pair comprising long ;rectangular oppositely arranged side/pieces end crosspieces extending from opposite ends of'th'e side pieces at'right' angles, and

intermediate crosspieces extending from the intermediate portions of the side pieces and havlng inclined meeting faces fittlng an locking together and offsetting one side piece relative to the other so that the end' pieces of adjacent pairs will hook together.

In testimony whereof I havesigned my name to thisspecification.

ABRAHAM PiN'rsKnn; 

